Cameron Pfiffer
Founding Developer Relations Engineer
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolCameron Pfiffer is a Founding Developer Relations Engineer in San Francisco with nine years of experience bridging probabilistic research and developer-facing AI products. He builds tooling and documentation that help teams construct memory-enabled agent systems at Letta, and previously focused on predictable, structured language-model outputs at .txt. Cameron's background combines a PhD in Finance and postdoctoral computational work at Stanford, where he scaled Bayesian models on multi-terabyte datasets and sped up probabilistic inference by 3–4x. As a core contributor and technical writer to the 2k-star Turing.jl probabilistic programming project, he led documentation migrations and performance-minded refactors of inference algorithms. Equally comfortable writing high-performance C# tools that cut billable hours or running spotlights at Cirque du Soleil, he brings a practical, efficiency-first mindset to developer tooling and research engineering. He’s a recovering finance researcher who now spends his time making machines that learn and explaining how they work to other engineers.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Technical Theater, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Technical Theater at Southern Oregon UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Finance, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Finance at University of Oregon Lundquist College of BusinessMaster of Science (MSc) Corporate Finance, Master of Science (MSc) Corporate Finance at Henley Business School
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Github Skills (7)
probabilistic-programming10
build-automation10
documentation10
julia10
stock-quotes6
quantmod6
r6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
TuringLang/Turing.jl
Sep 2018 - May 2021
Bayesian inference with probabilistic programming.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Technical Writer
Back-end Developer & Technical WriterContributions:7 releases, 55 reviews, 302 commits in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Cameron's contributions primarily revolved around the documentation and build processes of the Turing.jl project, which is a probabilistic programming language. Their work included migrating the documentation to Documenter.jl, refactoring build scripts, and updating links. They were also involved in small-scale refactoring within the compiler and addressing packaging notations.
julia-languagebayesian-inferencebayesian-methodsbayesian-neural-networkshamiltonian-monte-carlo
cpfiffer/cpfiffer.github.io
Aug 2017 - Dec 2022
Contributions:108 commits, 108 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 5 months
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